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A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Eamon Dolan
January 2015
On Sale: January 20, 2015
320 pages ISBN: 0544086619 EAN: 9780544086616 Kindle: B00HK3EXR6 Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
In the tradition of The Emperor of All Maladies
and The Noonday Demon, a moving, eye-opening
exploration of
PTSD Just as polio
loomed over the 1950s, and AIDS stalked the 1980s and ’90s,
posttraumatic stress disorder haunts us in the early years
of the twenty-first century. Over a decade into the United
States’ “global war on terror,” PTSD afflicts as many as 30
percent of the conflict’s veterans. But the disorder’s reach
extends far beyond the armed forces. In total, some
twenty-seven million Americans are believed to be PTSD
survivors. Yet to many of us, the disorder remains shrouded
in mystery, secrecy, and shame. Now, David J. Morris — a
war correspondent, former Marine, and PTSD sufferer himself
— has written the essential account of this illness. Through
interviews with individuals living with PTSD, forays into
the scientific, literary, and cultural history of the
illness, and memoir, Morris crafts a moving work that will
speak not only to those with the condition and to their
loved ones, but also to all of us struggling to make sense
of an anxious and uncertain time.
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